Santorini Island, Greece - Dog Day Afternoons

We met a hilarious young woman from Singapore – Jessica, while we were visiting Santorini. She was touring with her three sisters, and she was acting as their unofficial tour guide.

They are Malaysian and she was a real “pistol” as thy say. A waiter from a local restaurant showed up around midnight. He was obviously not looking for two pasty Canadians. So Monica, I, Jessica and the waiter all had a bottle of wine and chatted for an hour or so listening to the cicadas.

Jessica speaks a few languages, and she purchases generators for the mining and industrial sectors for a living, which is just so weird, as she looks more like maybe a fashion designer or an interior designer or something.

Santorini has incredible geopgrahy and is visited by thousands of people who are coming in on cruise ships sailing the Aegean. There are also lots of expensive boutiques and restaurants. Make sure you check the menus before you go into restaurants here. In one place, Rod paid close to 10 Euros for a glas of fruit juice! We broke our friend Dave's Europe Rule: "ALWAYS ask the price before you order."

We stayed in the island's main town for about a week and then moved to a cheaper place in a nearby town called Kamari. This is a better place to park yourself if you want a more relaxed place to kick back away from the cruise boat hordes.

We witnessed a crime while we were on the island: when we were leaving a really coold red sand beach called...you guessed it, Red Beach...two young guys on scooters zoomed up to what looked like a rented car, smashed a window and drove away with a handbag. They also dropped a pair of really tacky pair of fake white "Gucci" sunglasses. (See ridiculuous picture of Rod with ridiculous glasses and cigar as"The Greek.") We had a guy from a local snack bar phone the cops, but nobody seemed to bent out of shape. We actually had a license plate from one of the scooters, so we reported it. The police told the guy in the restaurant, "well they could come by and file a report, but don't worry too much about it." Given the police station was in a different village, we decided to give that a miss. No word on why they didn't hop in ther squad car and come TO US. Man...I guess if all detectives work this hard, it's not surprising that Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose.